This is the second in a two-part series on attorney-client privilege and work product protection. We did not plan it this way, but our recent This Is Why Board Presentations Are Privileged And Protected blogpost generated a lot of interest, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an important opinion last week on these topics, so
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This Is Why Board Presentations Are Privileged And Protected

By Steven Boranian on
Posted in Privilege
It is a fairly common situation. A company is facing an issue that someone thinks the board of directors ought to know about, so general counsel retains outside counsel to provide advice. Maybe outside counsel prepares a memo. Maybe he or she appears at a board meeting to give a presentation with others from the…
Saving the Privilege after an Inadvertent Disclosure

By John Sullivan on
Posted in Multidistrict Litigation, Privilege
So you’re sitting next to one of your client’s senior executives. You’re at a large table in a larger conference room. There’s a lawyer for every seat at the table. There’s a court reporter in the room. A videographer too. The lawyer across the table from you slides a document to your client and gives…